From:  "Amanda Angelika" <manic_mandy@hotmail.com>
Date:  16 Jan 2005 01:05:12 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/alt.support.srs
Subject:  

Re: IT :)

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In news:20050114211409.1f93127e.user_x@thisisnotameri.ca,
UserX  typed:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 05:04:14 GMT
> UserX  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:26:33 -0500
>> L D Blake  wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:39:31 GMT, "Amanda Angelika"
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mind it's surprising they got away with trademarking a generic
>>>> term.
>>>
>>> It wasn't considered generic when they trademarked it Amanda.
>>>
>>> Up to that point only Zenith (where Gates got the idea) and MS had
>>> anything like point and click ... even the mouse concept was
>>> "borrowed" from Apple. The concept of "desktop windows" was
>>> anything but well known or generally used... people were talking
>>> about shells and forms... not windows.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Actually first was memex (concept only, but it was the inspiration),
>> second was NLS, third was parc (xerox), & fourth was the mac in 1984.
>> So says wikipedia:
>>
>> http://wikipedia.com
>>
>> Also Amiga & Atari had GUI's before win3.1, which is widely
>> considered
>> the first viable win version.
>>
>> I think the reason M$ got away with trademarking windows is that the
>> marketing & accounting departments throughout the industry were
>> caught napping -- few at the time suspected billions were to be made
>> over the next 20 years.
>>
>>
>> -user_x-
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>> The hardest thing to understand is the income tax.
>> --Albert Einstein
>
> oops, here's a more specific link:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface
>
> -user_x-

It's interesting. I mean if it could be proven by reference to history that
the term "windows" is a generic term and should never have been trademarked.
Introducing an OS called "Other brand Windows" and winning the case (or even
fighting it) would provide massive amounts of free world-wide publicity, for
 the new OS :) I hope they send me a cheque for thinking it up LOL
-- 
Amanda



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